Israeli politicians Tzipi Livni and Isaac Herzog are teaming up for the upcoming elections; will the UN recognize Palestine as a state?; Israelis think the US/Israel relationship is in crisis; Palestinian cabinet minister killed at an anti-Israel protest; TJC checks in at the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters after an anti-Semitic stabbing there last week; how to give gifts that give back at Bloomingdales this Hanukkah; and a peek at our Up Close interview with Sara Lipton, author of “Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography.”